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"Start-up Disk is Full" ... yeah, so now what?
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<blockquote data-quote="pigoo3" data-source="post: 1463001" data-attributes="member: 56379"><p>The solution is…some of that "stuff" needs to be moved off your hard drive. Stuff cannot just continuously be added and added and added to a hard drive…and not at some point expect it to fill up. Hard drives have a finite amount of storage space…and eventually they will fill up.</p><p></p><p>If you allow your hard drive to get completely full…your computer will "lock up"…making it unusable, since the Mac OS needs some free hard drive space to operate.</p><p></p><p>What you need to do is:</p><p></p><p>- Delete any unnecessary items (old files, photos, music, games, applications, videos, etc.). All of us have at least some of this.</p><p>- "Burn" some of the files you don't use regularly onto a CD/DVD…then delete them from your HD.</p><p>- Purchase an external hard drive…and store many of the unnecessary (not needed daily items) there.</p><p>- Try an online/internet based storage solution like Carbonite.</p><p>- Finally you could purchase and install a larger hard drive into your MacBook. </p><p></p><p>From the info you provided…it appears to only be an 80gig drive…which is not very large by todays standards.</p><p></p><p>HTH,<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>- Nick</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pigoo3, post: 1463001, member: 56379"] The solution is…some of that "stuff" needs to be moved off your hard drive. Stuff cannot just continuously be added and added and added to a hard drive…and not at some point expect it to fill up. Hard drives have a finite amount of storage space…and eventually they will fill up. If you allow your hard drive to get completely full…your computer will "lock up"…making it unusable, since the Mac OS needs some free hard drive space to operate. What you need to do is: - Delete any unnecessary items (old files, photos, music, games, applications, videos, etc.). All of us have at least some of this. - "Burn" some of the files you don't use regularly onto a CD/DVD…then delete them from your HD. - Purchase an external hard drive…and store many of the unnecessary (not needed daily items) there. - Try an online/internet based storage solution like Carbonite. - Finally you could purchase and install a larger hard drive into your MacBook. From the info you provided…it appears to only be an 80gig drive…which is not very large by todays standards. HTH,:) - Nick [/QUOTE]
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